raclette

raclette

a Swiss dish of cheese melted before an open fire, scraped onto a plate, and served with boiled potatoes and small sour pickles

Origin of raclette

French from racler, to scrape from Vulgar Latin an unverified form rasclare (for an unverified form rasiculare) from Classical Latin rasus, a scraping, origin, originally , past participle of radere: see rat